Wednesday, February 15, 2017

(First of all, I understand
the odds of the Senator actually reading this letter are absurdly remote. So let me take just a moment to speak to the
member of your staff who is reading this on your behalf. Hi there,
no I am not one of the Senator’s Arizona constituents. I am an overseas, expat California voter who
lives in London. Senator Diane Feinstein is my Senator. But I wanted to write to Senator McCain and ask for his
help, not as an Arizonan but as an American.)

Dear Senator
McCain,

As preface, and
confession. I am not a Republican, (I
used to be, but that is not germane to this discussion.) But I have always admired your service to our country and have the deepest respect for the sacrifices you have made in the course
of that service. You Sir, are a true American Hero.

It is awfully
tempting when looking at the arc of your
career in public service to ponder historical “what if’s” It is hard not to imagine that, had You
been successful in your campaign for the Presidency in 2000, instead of then Governor
Bush, the world today (and the New York
skyline) might well look very different than they do today. But
that is neither here or there. We
are where we are.

And that, is the problem.

Senator. The President of the United States has,
either willingly or unwittingly
been compromised by an adversarial
foreign power. His National Security Adviser was clearly a risk to our
national security by his relationship with, and work on behalf of, that same adversarial foreign power.

The mountain of
evidence that our very democratic process
was compromised is just the tip of a massive iceberg of concerns about
this Administration; and its political,
financial and potentially illegal ties to Vladimir Putin’s regime.

All this from an
Administration led by man who insulted, degraded and mocked not only your
service and heroism, but that of all POW’s

Senator, when you ran for President again in 2008, your
campaign slogan was “Country First”. It
is time to live up to that slogan. The
leadership of the Republican Party under Senator McConnell and Speaker Ryan have made it clear that they will put partisan gain before country,
regardless of the cost to our nation.
You sir are the last remaining
Statesman in your party, and all Americans desperately need you, to once more put country first.

You have made
service to country the defining theme of your life, Sir. That country now calls upon you again.

You must stand
up, and stop this insanity. The truth of
the Trump Campaign and now, Trump Administration’s
ties to Russia must be immediately
and thoroughly investigated by an independent counsel. This will never happen if left to GOP
leadership.